Judge Anatoly Lazarevich Kolodkin
(Member of the Tribunal since 1 October 1996; re-elected as from 1 October 1999)

Education: Faculty of Law, State University, St. Petersburg (1945–1950); Doctor of Legal Sciences (1971); Professor (1985).

Professional Experience: Researcher and Head of Department, Central Marine Scientific Research Institute, St. Petersburg (1956–1968); Head of International Law of the Sea Department (1968–1978), Deputy Director (1981–present), State Scientific Research and Project Development Institute of Maritime Transport, Moscow; Director, International Communications Department of the All-Union Morsvyazsputnik Association (1978–1981); President, Maritime Law Assiciation (1981–present); Professor, Moscow State Law Academy (1994–present); President, Russian International Law Association (1994–present); Chairman, National Committee of the Russian Federation on UN Decade of International Law (1996–2005); Co-Chairman, Scientific Expert Council on International Law of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (1997–2004); Main Scientific Fellow, Institute of the State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1998-present); Head of Department, Moscow State Academy of Water Transport (2002–present).

Member: Expert Council on Legal Sciences of the Russian Federation Higher Degree Committee (1985–2002); Permanent Court of Arbitration (1990–present); Academic Council on International Law, Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of the State and Law (1993–present); two Academic Councils of Moscow University (1985–2002); Comité Maritime International, Vice-President (1981–1994), Honorary Vice-President (1994–present); Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii (Council member 1989–1995); Planning Council, International Ocean Institute Pacem in Maribus (1971–1990); Delegate to Conference on establishing INMARSAT and sessions of the Assembly and Council (1972–1982); Head of USSR delegations to Diplomatic Conferences on Privileges and Immunities of INMARSAT and on the Headquarters Agreement between INMARSAT and UK Government (1981); elaborated (co-author) and presented on behalf of the USSR to IMO Draft Convention on the Legal Regime of Vessels in Foreign Ports (1974); elaborated and presented twice to IOC UNESCO Draft Convention on the Legal Regime of Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (1993 and 1995); Expert, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO; USSR delegate and spokesman of East-European States to the Preparatory Groups and the Conference on elaborating and adopting the UN Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships (1982–1986); Expert at the meetings of UNESCO for the draft Convention for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (1999–2000); Scientific Council to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation (2001–present).

Publications: Author of more than 260 books and articles published in Russia, USA, UK, Germany, Belgium, Italy, India, Poland, etc. on international law, law of the sea, maritime and shipping law and international organizations, including World Ocean: International Legal Regime (in Russian), 1973, (in English), 1974; History of International Law of the Sea, 1974; The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Legislative Practice of States (co-author), 1984; The International Legal Regime of Territorial Waters and Contiguous Zones (in Russian), 1992; Stability in the Law of the Sea – Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era (together with B. Oxman, in Russian and English), 1995 and 1996; International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea – a New Judicial International Institution (in Russian and English), 1998; “International Law of the Sea”, Manual of International Law (in Russian), 2001; “UNCLOS: Significance and New Aspects of the Application”, International Law, vol. 4, 2001; “International Law of the Sea”, Manual of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2002.